Second Announcement - EUMASS

1 Second Announcement We kindly invite you! The European Union for Medicine in Assurance and social security ( EUMASS ), the Dutch Association for Insurance Medicine (NVVG), the Dutch Association of Medical Advisors in Private Insurance (GAV) and the Scientific Association for Insurance Medicine in Flanders (WVV) are pleased to invite you to the EUMASS 2018 Congress and the Dutch International Congress on Insurance Medicine 2018, which will both take place in Maastricht, The Netherlands, from 4 to 6 October 2018.

2 EUMASS strives at congresses where themes on insurance medicine are being discussed from various international perspectives, wherever important and scientifically top rate developments take place. The EUMASS congress is one of the big international learning events in insurance medicine in Europe. Participants can learn and develop themselves by hearing about new developments, by presenting their own work to receive professional feed-back and by discussing numerous themes with presenters and other participants.

3 We hope to receive many abstracts for parallel sessions about research, education and practise in the different fields of insurance medicine. Please find more information at: On behalf of the Scientific and Organising Committees, we look forward to welcoming you in Maastricht in October 2018! Dr. Corina Oancea, president of the Scientific committee Dr. Paula Eken, president of the Organising Committee Call for abstracts You are kindly invited to submit an abstract for the 22nd EUMASS congress through the congress website.

4 Guidelines and the abstract submission tool are available on the congress webpages at Be sure to submit your abstract before the deadline of 31th January 2018. Accepted abstracts will be allocated to the appropriate scientific session. Notification of acceptance and instructions for oral or poster presentations will be sent by 1st March 2018 via e-mail. Presenting authors who are accepted should register and pay conference registration fees. All abstracts (oral and poster presentations) will be published in the conference programme book.

5 The 22nd EUMASS congress welcomes the submission of abstracts on the following themes: Sick leave certification Return-to-work Disability evaluation and management Work capacity in occupational diseases and employment injuries Monitoring health care E-health and telemedicine in insurance medicine Ethical dilemmas in insurance medicine Robotics and rehabilitation Big data Ageing working population Migration Interaction between healthcare and disability evaluation Abstracts are not limited to these themes.

6 Any other insurance medicine topic is welcome. Sneak preview: We expect to offer you key note lectures by: Prof. Angelique de Rijk, School for Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, the Netherlands; Dr. Ilona Autti-R m , KELA, The social Insurance Institution of Finland, Helsinki, Finland; Prof. Sandra Brouwer, University of Groningen, Department of Health Sciences, the Netherlands; Prof. Silje Endresen Reme, University of Oslo, Norway; Prof.

7 Eira Viikari-Juntura, Disability Research Prevention Centre of Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland; Dr. William S. Shaw, University of Connecticut Health Center in the United States, USA Prof. Gunnel Hensing, Gothenburg University, Sweden; Ass. Prof. Despina Gherman, Carol Davila University, Bucharest, Romania; Prof. Philippe Michel, Sant Publique, Universit de Lyon, France; Prof. Johannes Giehl, Head Compentence Centre Quality Assurance of the statutory Health Service, Germany; Prof.

8 Ben Nemery, Center for Environment and Health, KU Leuven, Belgium; Prof. Johan Braeckman, Institute of Philosophy at University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and University of Ghent, Belgium. General Information Congress language: The official language for the 22nd EUMASS congress will be English. Translation to French will be available. Registration: Registration will start in March 2018 on our website. A start of registration notice, including information about the registration fees and the possibility to book a hotel, will be distributed in the last week of February 2018.

9 Discounts will be available for early birds. Website: Read more on our website which will be updated regularly. Contact: For any questions you may have concerning the congress, please contact the Organising Committee via About the congress venue & Maastricht The Maastricht Exhibition and conference centre: About Maastricht: Past and present alternate in architecture, but certainly also in cultural offer. From underground cultural treasures and characteristic towers, to lively and vibrant festivals and exhibitions.

10 Please visit the website for more information: You'll see that Maastricht is definitely worth a visit! How to get there: Maastricht lies in the "Tail" of the "Dutch Lion", near Aachen in Germany and Liege in Belgium. Intercontinental travelers could also look for alternative Dutch, German and Belgian airports beside Amsterdam airport or Brussels airport and use the train or a shuttlebus to get to Maastricht. For more information visit our how to get there page on our website.